SEOUL (AFP) - A refugee was shot dead by North Korean border guards last month after reaching Chinese soil in a strengthened crackdown on escapees, a South Korean activist said on Monday. 'During my trip to a border area on Oct 22, I witnessed a man shot to death after arriving in China,' Kim Yong Hwa, head of the North Korea Refugees Human Rights Association of Korea, told AFP. The man in his 40s was apparently shot by the North's guards from near the northern border city of Hyesan and died in front of Chinese soldiers, he said. 'After a sound of shooting across the river, I saw him groaning and crawling on the ground. Several Chinese soldiers were there but did not care,' Mr Kim said. The man struggled to get to his knees but then died, Mr Kim said. 'My tour guide recorded his last moments with a mobile phone.' The shooting of an escapee after he had reached China formed...